ECW had some truly great wrestling on it's programming.Great feuds been build up,great matches,grounded storylines.ECW was all about good wrestling programming.I don't really understand how people would say that the Attitude themed WWE was the same as ECW.
Simply put:it wasn't.
Why?Well,because ECW was first and foremost a wrestling program.The WWE at the same time(1997,1998,1999,2000,2001)was still first and foremost entertainment.
WWE in 1998-1999 had awful matches,but some of ECW's matches were quite different at the same time span.
You had Taz and Bigelow doing a good feud with good wrestling in it,you had RVD and Lynn put classic WRESTLING matches one after another.And we could still bring up Tanaka/Awesome and some 2 Cold Scorpio matches.
My point is that the WWE was an entertainment show filled with outlandish segments like Taker doing the Ministry thing and Corporation angle,while ECW was a hard hitting wrestling program,enhancing the hatred between two wrestlers and then having brutal matches with each other.
They were very different.The one thing that WWE had in common was the edgy and more realistic look,but that's about it.
Simply put:it wasn't.
Why?Well,because ECW was first and foremost a wrestling program.The WWE at the same time(1997,1998,1999,2000,2001)was still first and foremost entertainment.
WWE in 1998-1999 had awful matches,but some of ECW's matches were quite different at the same time span.
You had Taz and Bigelow doing a good feud with good wrestling in it,you had RVD and Lynn put classic WRESTLING matches one after another.And we could still bring up Tanaka/Awesome and some 2 Cold Scorpio matches.
My point is that the WWE was an entertainment show filled with outlandish segments like Taker doing the Ministry thing and Corporation angle,while ECW was a hard hitting wrestling program,enhancing the hatred between two wrestlers and then having brutal matches with each other.
They were very different.The one thing that WWE had in common was the edgy and more realistic look,but that's about it.